BRITAIN: Wilson's First Hundred Hours

With practiced aplomb, Harold Wilson last week took
charge of Britain as if he had been swept into power by a landslide.
Shortly before 8:30 last Monday night, a black Rover drew up in front
of No. 10 Downing Street; the crowd that had gathered outside gave an
approving cheer. Pausing on the doorstep, the new Prime Minister
impatiently waved aside the applause. "We have a job to do,"
he said in his flat Yorkshire accent. "We can only do it as one
people, and I am going right in to start that...